Once (Stan) Musial timed your fastball, your infielders were in jeopardy.

I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie forever if I'd only struck him out.

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.

[On Willie Mays] He was something like zero for twenty-one the first time I saw him. His first major league hit was a home run off me and I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie (Mays) forever if I'd only struck him out.

A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.

Home plate is 17 inches wide, but I ignore the middle 12 inches. I pitch to the two-and-a-half inches on each side.

Spahn and Sain and pray for rain.